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All Quotes Collection
"The idea led me into the research, which continues to give me more ideas for the story."
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"Science Fiction is not just about the future of space ships travelling to other planets, it is fiction based on science and I am using science as my basis for my fiction, but it's the science of prehistory - palaeontology and archaeology - rather than astronomy or physics."
46
"And that's how I start myself. I usually go back a couple of pages, maybe to the beginning of the chapter, and I start reading. And as I'm reading, I'm tweaking - putting in a different word, changing the syntax, putting that clause over there, you know that sort of thing."
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"I can't tell you any more than any other writer can tell you why they write, and I don't know what my influences are."
30
"I probably read 100 times more than I write, but that way when I move my characters through it, I know."
42
"From the beginning, the series has been story driven - I began with a story idea - but research feeds it."
43
"Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions."
25
"The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work."
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"The old man, of whom we know how he has become what he is, is more of an individual than the young man; for it is only in the course of an eventful life that men are differentiated into full individuality."
16
"To write history is so difficult that most historians are forced to make concessions to the technique of legende."
18
"Real style is not having a program - it's how one behaves in a crisis."
64
"To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painter's imagination."
58
"It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint, considering that one may not wake up the following morning."
40
"Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up."
34
"An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise."
31
"It was a major dream come true at last. In many respects, Jerusalem is a very modern and important story about people in a period of transition, with all the unrest that permeates society on the eve of a new century. The big life issues are at stake."
46
"The big difference is the size of the crew and the flexibility of shooting because of the size. I mean, it's crazy. So you can't improvise, you cannot suddenly do something that comes to mind, whereas in a small production you have much more flexibility."
48
"We talked a lot about The Best Intentions and how we could shoot certain scenes in different ways with slightly different bits of dialogue and information, so that later on, we could cut the piece more easily and it would still feel complete, even though it was shorter."
67
"It was actually Peter's idea that I should make the film. He called me in the very beginning, and I hadn't even read the book. So I read it and I liked it very much and I knew I'd certainly like to do it."
97
"I wanted to make Jerusalem as feature film. But we couldn't finance it only through theatrical release, we couldn't get all the money we needed. We had to get some money from television. So we said, ok, let's do it both ways. So we did it in four parts."
49
"He considers the theatrical version of Fanny and Alexander an amputated version of what his original film was, and he doesn't really like the shorter film."
Film,
39
"From the beginning, we were prepared, we know how we would shoot and cut the two versions."
48
"The novel is a penetrating study of morals and ethics."
101
"I was mostly interested in it as a theatrical film. Personally, I am not so interested in television, simply because I don't watch television myself. I'm into movies."
44
"The best way to make a silk purse from a sow's ear is to begin with a silk sow. The same is true of money."
57
"Motivation will almost always beat mere talent."
130
"One cannot legislate problems out of existence. It has been tried."
39
"One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'"
58
"People do not win people fights. Lawyers do."
49
"People working in the private sector should try to save money. There remains the possibility that it may someday be valuable again."
44
"Rank does not intimidate hardware. Neither does the lack of rank."
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